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News Photos Littleton Derailment Cleanup

Taken on Sunday, 18-Jan-2009, about 36 hours after the derailment.

Date: 01 Jan 2009
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Looking northeast up the trench
Date: 01 Jan 2009
Owner: ND Holmes
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Looking northwest, with a pile of broken ties and wheelsets
Date: 01 Jan 2009
Owner: ND Holmes
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The Littleton station platform, showing the severed ends of the UP/BNSF main and the northbound light rail track.
Date: 01 Jan 2009
Owner: ND Holmes
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Removing the destroyed retaining wall at the south end of the Littleton platform
Date: 01 Jan 2009
Owner: ND Holmes
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Panel track ready to be installed once the grade is restored
Date: 01 Jan 2009
Owner: ND Holmes
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Loading up broken track bits
Date: 01 Jan 2009
Owner: ND Holmes
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Another view of loading the debris. The bridge over the top actually carries a small stream across the trench.
Date: 01 Jan 2009
Owner: ND Holmes
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Looking southeast towards the southern end of the derailment site.
Date: 01 Jan 2009
Owner: ND Holmes
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Another look at the debris pile
Date: 01 Jan 2009
Owner: ND Holmes
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Another look northeast
Date: 01 Jan 2009
Owner: ND Holmes
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Pushing a string of damaged cars with a John Deere product
Date: 01 Jan 2009
Owner: ND Holmes
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A closer look at one of the damaged cars.
Date: 01 Jan 2009
Owner: ND Holmes
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Another damaged car
Date: 01 Jan 2009
Owner: ND Holmes
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And another Deere dragging the cars from the south end. The power is on the next track over.
Date: 01 Jan 2009
Owner: ND Holmes
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The "Vampire Motor" appears in daylight! M-PUDV has been stuck south of the derailment site since early Saturday. Unfortunately it wasn't exactly parked in a choice spot - behind a junk yard between Louviers and Sedalia.
Date: 01 Jan 2009
Owner: ND Holmes
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